Sonja Bent

 

Sonja Bent is a young Icelandic designer who focuses on knitwear. Playing with colour and texture she takes knitted clothes far away from frumpiness and into the modern age. The results are sexy yet comfortable – clothes in which you can feel at home in cocktail parties as well as in country cottages. Sonja’s designs carry the glamour and femininity of traditional tailoring but make it softer with the use of knitted fabrics and her special talent of making clothes that make their wearers feel good about themselves - clothes that make you wink. Keeping both practicality and playfulness in mind, she makes clothes for the confident and happy woman who is at ease with herself and likes to play a game of dress up – before being undressed.

 
Education
Iceland Academy Of The Arts 2004 – 2007
- BA degree in Textile and Fashion design
 
 
Projects
Reykjavik Complete 2003
- Design of uniforms for The Tourist Information Centre
Vik wool 2004
- Designed a knitted dress line for Vík wool
Comme des Garçons +354 Guerrilla store, 2005-2006
- Established and managed +354 Guerrilla store in collaboration with CDG and 3 wonderful friends
Lazy town 2006
- Costume department- knitwear for the winter episode and worked as an
assistant for the costume department
Brúðguminn 2007
Icelandic film, worked as an assistant for the costume designer in the final scene
Imagine Peace Tower  2007
- Project management regarding Yoko Ono´s peace tower in Viðey Island.
 
Exhibitions
Fashion and Arts show 1999
- at The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík 
Iceland Fashion Week 2003
- at Þingvellir national park
Christmas exhibition 2003
- Handverk og Hönnun “Allir fá þá eitthvað fallegt”
Iceland fashion week 2004
- at Reykjavík City Hall
Cph vision 2007
- Copenhagen fashion week- Designers Nest; show & showroom
Handverk og Hönnun 2007
- Design exhibition at Reykjavík City Hall